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    My Browser Builds (Part 3)

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

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    @roytam1

    Yes, it is true: the mobile version works faster, but it is different, and restricts video quality to 720p. I retested it, now it was OK. Previously I was unable to pause the video (pause not worked as intended), also have problems with changing the video position (I do not known, why it was wrong then, nothing was changed except UserAgent). In overall, I still prefer the normal interface.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 3)

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted · Edited by PPeti66x

    @roytam1

    The new PM27 version is now OK. Thanks! But it changed the enforced UserAgent  for the youtube (beginning with 27.10.0.win32-git-20210807). Now it uses the mobile version, which have a totally unusable interface (controls) for PC users. I recommend to revert it. I think, it is not recommended to use mobile version for multimedia sites in PC because of the possible different controls. Youtube seems to work perfectly with Firefox 52.9 UserAgent (I changed it to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:52.9 Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.9) (Pale Moon)").

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    My Browser Builds (Part 3)

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

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    @RainyShadow

    YT videos works like a charm, with the ADBlock Lattitude even without those (first 5sec unskippable) annoying ADs. Only javascript processing is very slow.

    By pressing Alt+V, it shows: +Menu Bar, +Navigation Toolbar, -Bookmark Toolbar, +Status Bar. Disabling then Enabling does not help. It seems, that these toolbars are present, but are hidden by incorrect size settings.

     

    Forgot to mention, that happens even with clean profile.

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    My Browser Builds (Part 3)

    in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes

    Posted

    @roytam1

    It seems, that I found a bug in the New Moon 27: when resuming from the video full screen, controls (including address bar) are invisible (bad sizing?). Bug introduced with palemoon-27.10.0.win32-git-20210717-619c191e4-xpmod-ia32 (SSE and other versions not tested), and still persists (see the attached images). I must restart New Moon to restore the correct looking.

    NM20210717_init.png

    NM20210717_messed.png

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    Adobe Flash, Shockwave, and Oracle Java on XP (Part 2)

    in Windows XP

    Newer motherboards that support WinXP

    in Windows XP

    Posted · Edited by PPeti66x

    @genieautravail

    Hi! Your problem is that you have notebook and not desktop PC. And in case of USB this is a big difference: notebooks have not enough USB ports to connect physically all USB ports that is supported by the chipset. And due to compatibility with older systems, all USB ports are in 2.0 mode on Dell notebooks, except the compatible OS is detected. This behavior can be forced via BIOS settings, but you can not force USB 3 mode on Dell computers - this is automatic. And device driver for this switcher does not exists for Windows XP/2003. So if you returns from Windows 7 or later, 1st time you will have USB 3.0 on XP (without modded AMD driver no working USB ports at this time), but 2nd and later times you will have only USB 2. So if you need USB 3 on XP, start the Win7/later, then restart to the Windows XP. But be careful, the switching mechanism is not 100% reliable. At this time no solution found for this problem. It seems that Intel Host Controller Switch (iusb3hcs.sys) device driver must be modded for the Windows XP, but a simple INF file modding is not enough, it is binary incompatible with the Windows XP.

    PS: With ACPI.SYS build 5048 from Longhorn you may have other problems (at least on my M4800 these problems exists): 1. display brightness Fn keys no longer works; 2. monitor switching Fn key no longer works. If your notebook have a discrete graphics card, you will have problems with display switching if you returns from sleep mode or if display was turned off by system/software - with original ACPI.SYS you can reenable the display with the Fn key, which not works with the build 5048 version.

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    Newer motherboards that support WinXP

    in Windows XP

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    acpi_inf_for_Longhorn5048_x86.zip

    The long awaited driver. But still not perfect. For desktop users probably solves the USB3-related problems, but notebooks (e.g. DELL M4800) may use a switching mechanism. If compatible OS detected, some or all ports are switched to USB3, else USB2 (and USB3 mode can not be forced in BIOS) - this is not too reliable, sometimes requires more restarts. So in case of my M4800 if I switch back from Win7, 1st time the ports are in USB3 mode (and works correctly), but 2nd time, these ports are switched back to USB2 mode. By this driver the problem with disfunctional ports after 1st restart to WinXP was solved.

    The other (minor) problem, that ACPI.SYS from Longhorn build 5048 is required to install the USB3 driver. But this ACPI version have some missing features for notebook users accessible via function keys: changing the monitor brightness, switching between built-in and external monitors. And Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Embedded Controller driver (ACPI\PNP0C09) remains incorrectly installed - but it is not more needed/supported by the new ACPI.SYS. I made a modded INF for this ACPI.SYS, but installing on a live system may be problematic - without removing all references to ACPIEC from registry manually prior reinstalling the "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Embedded Controller" the reinstallation was incorrect.

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    Newer motherboards that support WinXP

    in Windows XP

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    Interesting. This tool not works as intended on my computer, but solved my problem (at least partially). It can not turn off the screen properly - it will switch back after 2-3 seconds. The /enable function have no effect at all (it can not enable the disabled screen). But the /disable or the /switch commands are able to re-enable the disabled screen. So now I can use 2 programs, one for disabling, and this for enabling. Thanks for the tip.

    The Dell have proper tools for supporting these functions, but it requires Windows 7 and .NET framework 4 (officially) - on XP x64 Edition the screen switching fails similiar as in the Multi-Monitor Tool. And all these tools are slow (reaction times are sometimes near 0, sometimes about 2 sec). I hate the .NET framework.

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    Newer motherboards that support WinXP

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    I tried the acpi.sys from the Longhorn build 5048 and it solved the standby problem on my Dell M4800 notebook (Haswell, QM87). And the sound is also OK (the xp version killed the sound after unsuccessful sleep, so the audio driver required to be resterted manually). It also detects the Intel USB 3 device, but the driver is still non-working (it can be installed now by the modified inf files). Newer acpi.sys builds from Longhorn (5112 and above) are incompatible (0x0000007B error).

    Now I need to solve the screen problem - after the standby the monitor remains turned off, and I can not turn on again. So I must send to standby and it is mostly recovered 2nd time correctly. It is probably because notebook is switched back to the Intel integrated graphics instead of nVidia, but in XP using multiple garaphics adapters is not supported. Is there a way to reinit the nVidia graphics (without restarting/logging out)?

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    POSReady 2009 updates ported to Windows XP SP3 ENU

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    My question is: how to filter out updates with SSE/SSE2 requirement. For Windows Installer (executing one MSI file, e.g. office 2002 installer) and gdiplus.dll (executing Foxit Reader) was easy. The problem is, that untested files with SSE/SSE2 requirement may produce problems later, when some application trying to use it on old systems.

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